This document refers to functionality that may not be available within your institution’s
installation of Pure. We encourage you to customize the below as necessary.
Pure: Features and Benefits
Benefits for Your Institution
 Pure creates an integrated environment for all research output – from publications and projects to
posters and patents
 Research information (publications, projects, etc.) can be easily repurposed for reports, applications,
even departmental webpages, lessening administrative burden
 Promote your faculty, their research, and interests globally through your public-facing PurePortal: a
one-stop shop enabling showcasing and easy discovery of your institution’s experts
Benefits for Administrators
 Compile data, custom reports, and charts/graphs for annual reports on any data type available in Pure
- publications, projects, activities, and more – reducing time spent on creating bespoke reports
 Set and monitor progress towards departmental targets for areas such as collaboration patterns or
citation trends
 Create customizable dashboards for an at-a-glance overview of strategically-important metrics
Benefits for Faculty and Researchers
 Compile a complete view of your research, awards and activity with data from both internal systems
and external sources (Scopus, Web of Science, etc.). Your profile is easily discoverable online via your
institution’s PurePortal, enabling you to be discovered by, and find, potential collaborators
 Easily create customized CVs and NIH Biosketches – always kept up-to-date with data from Pure
 Search a database of over 20.000+ active grants to locate funding opportunities, or set up alerts for
new opportunities matched specifically to your areas of expertise
Benefits for Librarians
 Ensure publication records are accurate and complete. Set Pure to automatically search in multiple
online publication sources – including Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, WorldCat, CrossRef, and
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more - at regular intervals (subject to data subscriptions). Publications are then matched to
researchers and sent for their review and your validation
 Use Pure as a single place to store your institution’s manuscripts, data sets, and other research output,
and ensure they are linked to your researchers’ profiles and relevant departments or institutes. Or,
automatically feed data from Pure to DSpace, ePrints, or FEDORA
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Easily identify journals’ Open Access status and track deposits of full-text articles to ensure compliance
with OA mandates
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